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, and used for various purposes, as in removing dust from clothes, laying on colors, etc. Brushes have different shapes and names according to their use; as, clothes brush, paint brush, tooth brush, etc.

A large, edible, gregarious bird of Australia (Talegalla Lathami) of the family Megapodidæ. Also applied to several allied species of New Guinea.

wheel without teeth, used to turn a similar one by the friction of bristles or something brushlike or soft attached to the circumference.

One who, or that which, brushes.

The quality of resembling a brush; brushlike condition; shagginess. Dr. H. More.

Constructed or used to brush with; as a brushing machine.

A white or gray crystalline mineral consisting of the acid phosphate of calcium.

Brush; a thicket or coppice of small trees and shrubs.

Resembling a brush; shaggy; rough.

A kind of atomizer for applying liquid coloring matter in a spray by compressed air.

A brush of feathers, bristles, or hair, for removing dust from furniture.

A brush for cleansing and smoothing the hair.

A tuft or brush of hair on the knees of some species of antelopes and other animals; -- chiefly used in the plural.

A brush for cleaning the nails.

A low irregular shrub (Artemisia tridentata), of the order Compositæ, covering vast tracts of the dry alkaline regions of the American plains; -- called also sagebush, and wild sage.

Nevada; -- a nickname.

A stiff wire brush for cleaning iron castings and other metal.

A brush for cleaning the teeth.

Shrubs, small trees, and the like, in a wood or forest, growing beneath large trees; undergrowth.

barous corruption of have, of he, and sometimes of it and of they. "So would I a done" "A brushes his hat." Shak.